State v. Scandrett

CROCKETT, Chief Justice:

Gerald Scandrett was charged with first-degree murder for the stabbing to death of Tony Trujillo on November 8, 1968, in a room of the Upland Hotel on West Temple Street in Salt Lake City. After some preliminaries the charge was reduced to second-degree murder. A jury was waived, and upon a trial to the court the defendant was found guilty of that charge and he appeals.

No attack is made, nor could it be, as to the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction. The issue presented on this appeal is that the trial court erred in denying a motion to suppress…